Re: Anyone need an APL programmer with 25 years experience

On Jan 7, 4:17 pm, Gosi <gos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I think that it would be great to have some out of the box very simple
> applications.
> Applications that would do some really elementary stuff with grids.
> Other sets of applications that would through up a web interface.
> I am not talking about any big database servers.
> Something that would demonstrate easy input/output from a screen.
> Saving the results in a file.
> Yet another to do communication directly between computers.
>
> All of these kinds of applications are available but are doing a bit
> too much and are not easy to set up.
>
> I have wanted to see a lot of simplistic books written in the style of
> "APL for Dummies"
>
> I think quite a lot of people are simply scared of all the beautiful
> advanced applications that are so "easy" to do in APL

You are absolutely right.

Accessing the web is actually very easy from APL, but there are not
enough simple examples available. Writing these examples is a high
priority in 2008. As a first step on the way with respect to using the
web, the "Conga" workspace which will be included with Dyalog v12
contains very simple examples of a web server (about a page of APL), a
web client ("aka web screen scraper"), an FTP client (OK, this one is
several pages of code), "remote procedure calling" between APL
systems, a telnet server and client, and a couple of other simple
examples.